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Geophysicist Marianne Walck named VP of Sandia’s California laboratory
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Geophysicist Marianne Walck named VP of Sandia’s California laboratory

Today Sandia National Laboratories announced the appointment of Marianne Walck as vice president of Sandia’s California laboratory.

Correct and Efficient Code – HYDRO2D
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Correct and Efficient Code – HYDRO2D

Simulation of physical processes such as the waves in an ocean or the wake behind a boat, although similar in a number of ways, require different approaches. With...

IBM Platform Computing – Ready to Run Clusters in the Cloud
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IBM Platform Computing – Ready to Run Clusters in the Cloud

Demands by users that are running applications in the scientific, technical, financial or research areas can easily outstrip the capabilities of in-house clusters...

The insideHPC Guide to HPC in Life Sciences
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The insideHPC Guide to HPC in Life Sciences

The term next generation sequencing (NGS) is really a misnomer. NGS implies a single methodology, but the fact is that over the past 10 to 15 years there have...

IEEE is Rebooting Computing for What Comes Next
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IEEE is Rebooting Computing for What Comes Next

IEEE has launched something it calls Rebooting Computing (RC), "an initiative that proposes to rethink the computer through a holistic look that addresses all aspects...

NSF Grant to Expand Indiana University GlobalNOC in Asia-Pacific
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NSF Grant to Expand Indiana University GlobalNOC in Asia-Pacific

Today the Indiana University Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC) today announced the award of a major new five-year, $4.8 million grant from the...

Code Modernization – Why it is so Important
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Code Modernization – Why it is so Important

For about 40 years, developers and users could count on an increase in CPU performance that would make applications run faster. However, with the slowdown in constant...

Clusters For Dummies
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Clusters For Dummies

Clusters FOR DUMMIES is an excellent read for both experienced and novice administrators, users, purchasing departments, and developers who are considering purchasing...

DownUnder GeoSolutions Dives Into Liquid Submersion Cooling
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DownUnder GeoSolutions Dives Into Liquid Submersion Cooling

Today Green Revolution Cooling announced the latest installation of its CarnotJet System at the Australian geosciences company DownUnder GeoSolutions.

Mellanox Shows Record Performance with ConnectX-4 100Gb/s Interconnect Adapters
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Mellanox Shows Record Performance with ConnectX-4 100Gb/s Interconnect Adapters

Today Mellanox announced world-record performance on its ConnectX-4 EDR 100Gb/s InfiniBand adapters.

DDN Powers Fight Against Ebola at VBI
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DDN Powers Fight Against Ebola at VBI

Today DDN announced that the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute is using the company's GRIScaler storage solutions to perform rapid, accurate Ebola outbreak modeling...

Cray XC30 Powers LS-DYNA at Stalprodukt
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Cray XC30 Powers LS-DYNA at Stalprodukt

Today Cray announced that Stalprodukt S.A., a leading global steel processor, purchased a Cray XC30 supercomputer for structural analysis modeling used in the testing...

New Algorithm Real-Time Simulations in Materials Research
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New Algorithm Real-Time Simulations in Materials Research

Researchers at LBNL have have developed a new algorithm that opens the door for real-time simulations in atomic-level materials research.

OpenPOWER Summit Announces Speaker Lineupfor March Conference
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OpenPOWER Summit Announces Speaker Lineupfor March Conference

This week the OpenPOWER Foundation announced their lineup of speakers for the inaugural OpenPOWER Summit at the GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, March 17-19...

Optalysys to Power Genomics with Optical Computing
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Optalysys to Power Genomics with Optical Computing

Today the TGAC Genome Analysis Centre and Optalysys announced a collaboration to develop and implement an energy-efficient optical processing device for large-scale...

ARCHER Scales 118K Cores with Allinea MAP
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ARCHER Scales 118K Cores with Allinea MAP

Today the ARCHER national supercomputing service in the U.K. announced that it has deployed the Allinea MAP profiling tool to enable computational scientists and...

Inside Lustre Hierarchical Storage Management  (HSM)
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Inside Lustre Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)

There is always different levels of importance assigned to various data files in a computer system, specifically a very large system that is storing petabytes of...

IBM Redefines Storage Economics with New Software
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IBM Redefines Storage Economics with New Software

"A new approach is needed to help clients address the cost and complexity driven by tremendous data growth," said Tom Rosamilia, Senior Vice President, IBM Systems...

CHPC Propels Supercomputing in South Africa
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CHPC Propels Supercomputing in South Africa

CHPC Communications Manager Noxolo Moyake describes how the South African Center for High Performance Computing is fostering the use of supercomputing in the region...

CloudyCluster Moves HPC out of the Data Center and Into the Cloud
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CloudyCluster Moves HPC out of the Data Center and Into the Cloud

CloudyCluster allows you to quickly set up and configure a cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to handle the most demanding HPC and Big Data tasks. You don’t need...
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